The family traced its nobility back to Đorđe Branković (1645–1711), who was created an Imperial Count in 1688.

After his death, his title was passed on to his relative Jovan Branković (1675–1734), who served as an officer in the Habsburg army in the Military Frontier, as did most of his male descendants.

Since at least 1700, his personal attendant was his relative Jovan Branković born in around 1675 in the Transylvanian town of Lipova.

[3] In the same year, Jovan began to build his mansion, which would be turned into the city hall of Sombor in 1749.

Afterwards, he served in several units of the Habsburg army, including the Serbian Freikorps, and the Slunj, Brod, and Gradiška Regiments.

Army documents describe Đorđe as a courageous and deserving officer who participated in sixteen wars.

He was promoted to the rank of captain first class in 1804, the year when the First Serbian Uprising began in the Ottoman-held Serbia.

General Geneyne, the commander of the Slavonian Military Frontier, appointed Dimitrije as his liaison officer with influential Serbs in the empire, and, through them, with the insurgents in Serbia.

He became a soldier in 1799 and participated in Napoleonic Wars, serving in the Petrovaradin, Lika, and Brod Regiments.

On 28 June 1815, Pavle and the companies under his command successfully defended a bridge on the Arly River at the town of Conflans in Savoie, France.

He was the commander of a district of the Military Frontier in Lika, before he retired in 1843 in the rank of lieutenant colonel.

He died on 11 July 1856 in Novi Sad as the last Count of Podgorica, ending the male line of Jovan Branković from Lipova.

His funeral was conducted by Bishop Platon Atanacković with the participation of numerous priests and an honorary military escort consisting of a battalion of the Petrovaradin Regiment.

[13] Nikola's sixth and youngest son, Avram Branković, was born on 21 February 1782.

He became a Serbian Orthodox cleric and taught at the recently established Theology Faculty in Karlovci.

The eldest, Pulherija, married in 1792 Jeftimije Nović from Krčedin, an officer in the Petrovaradin Regiment.

He would be given a nobility rank in 1812 by the Habsburg Emperor Francis I. Descendants of Pulherija and Jeftimije lived in 1998 in Novi Sad and Belgrade.